Apparently it’s Galentine’s Day today. Hands up everyone who’s heard of Galentine’s Day? I certainly hadn’t. So of course, off I pootled to find out what it’s all about, and it’s something to do with showing your appreciation for your female friends. Well, I appreciate all of my friends, but here’s a shout-out for my gal-friends anyway!
Thursday started better than Wednesday ended but I did still want to finish sorting out some sort of social media content calendar. I wanted something automated that I could do online, and a I found a couple of things that might work but they’d also need a LOT of tweaking. So I pushed those to the back of my subconscious and ended up printing off blank monthly calendars for the year.
Using felt-tipped pens, I colour-coded 6 main areas in the order they need to be marked down:
- personal (maroon)
- publication day (blue)
- website (green)
- patreon (purple)
- medium (pink)
- newsletter (orange)
Then I worked through January just to see what I’d published where and on what date. Doing this highlighted a couple of things I don’t really want to carry on with going forward. But rather than going back and fixing what I did in January and the start of February, I chose instead to make sure I did it (or not) going forward.
As we’re already almost half-way through February, I continued along the same lines from today. Things like birthdays and public holidays go in first, but on the public holiday days it was just a reminder to do a public holiday post on the website, on Patreon and on Medium. Then the monthly wrap-up and the month ahead posts were next. And then the publication days.
That showed me all the blanks for the rest of February. In case I can’t think of a title for a daily blog post, the next thing I did was look at a few awareness day calendars online, and that gave me things like today’s Galentine’s Day.
I also decided on the format for the Patreon articles:
- the Wednesday Writing posts will be writing prompts to be thinking about *now*, take one idea to be writing about *now*, and the send it outs that should be, well, sent out *now* (for *now* read it as the current month)
- I’m going to start Tuesday Chapters with Night Crawler from the beginning of March
But Fiction Friday is going to be shelved for now until I have a few more paying subscribers. And that means Something for the Weekend on here will also be shelved for the foreseeable future. The only blog posts I’ll repeat on there will be:
- bank holiday posts
- book reviews
- publication day posts
- month ahead
- monthly wrap-up
All the blog posts will be repeated on Medium, but I’ll delete them once they’re 3 months old, and all the writing prompts articles will also be repeated on Medium.
And that is what I spent the entire first half of Thursday working on. It meant I had to move a short story revision to next week, but I was able to halve another job that was scheduled and shoe-horn the revision in easily enough.
A text message landed from the hospital. My follow-up with the doc who referred me has been booked for almost the end of June. That’s more than 4 months away and will do me just fine.
I caught up on yesterday’s blog post. Most of it was already written again, it just fell down the rabbit hole with me towards mid-afternoon. I chose the image and posted it everywhere. I’m still replicating them on Patreon, just until I start with the Tuesday chapters. And I did the blog rounds, adding another friend’s to my daily reading list.
I finished the date work, chose 5 ideas for myself, and 40 throw away ideas for the writing prompts feature. I’ll let those percolate for a few days now, and probably write up the writing prompts story on Monday, leave it to cool, post it to Patreon on Wednesday, and submit it to Writers’ Blokke on Medium. The editor can publish it when he likes, then.
My next writing workshop was pushed along, as was a proofreading job. Both to today, but I may watch the workshop over the weekend yet.
Whatever you’re up to this Valentine’s weekend, I hope it’s a good one.
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